12:15 p.m. — A PlayStation with games and more is stolen during a burglary on Blackwater Road.

2:26 p.m. — A toter is taken from Patton Street.

5:44 p.m. — A mailbox is mashed and mail scattered on Kendall Street.

5:53 p.m. — A car is keyed at Wellsweep Acres.

7:01 p.m. — A Wheaton terrier name of Cable has scampered from a home on Quarry Drive.

11:06 p.m. — Someone is taken into protective custody when police investigate a burst of noise on Old Dover Road.

11:28 p.m. — An Old Dover Road fence has been damaged with a bat.

11:34 p.m. — Two teens have hurled a computer through a car window on Front Street.

Saturday, Oct. 30

8:40 a.m. — There has been a spate of vandalism... a mailbox on Wentworth Avenue, a light post and Halloween decorations on Brookfield Drive, urns on Nature Lane, and mailboxes on Cider Hill Road, Rochester Avenue and Grondin Street.

9:29 a.m. — On Crown Point Road a big white rooster, called Duke, ain't crowing like it used ter. It's missing.

9:43 a.m. — A wallet has been found on Dewey Street.

10:12 a.m. Twenty bucks and some cigarettes have been stolen from Lafayette Street.

11:03 a.m. — A syringe is found on Lafayette Street. Police dispose of it properly.

11:46 a.m. — A car is smashed with a rock on Maple Street.

2:20 p.m. — A tipsy citizen clutching a beer sits on a bench outside Hannaford on North Main. William Elroy Whicher, 44, of 38B Pine St. is arrested on a bench warrant and taken into protective custody.

3:42 p.m. — A T-shirt and tennis ball found on the Common are turned in to the station.

5:43 p.m. — A 15-year-old is charged with criminal threatening.

5:45 p.m. — A shopper's purse is stolen at Hannaford on North Main Street.

7:04 p.m. — At Halloween upon a street where youngsters go for trick or treat, a worried parent calls the cops, his kid's been handed Hall's Cough Drops. (A curiosity has gripped us — cherry, mint or eucalyptus?) Dad makes the point it's medication and not the stuff of celebration. Police check out this plot of terror and find it was simple error.

7:20 p.m. — In a different part of town there is another cause to frown, trick or treaters are all shocked, for after a man's door is knocked, he answers it not how he should — he keeps appearing in the nude.

7:49 p.m. — A planter is heaved through a front window on May Street.

7:55 p.m. — A parent complains that his daughter has been given a bag of plastic tubing while out trick or treating. After she bit a tube her tongue went numb.

10:54 p.m. — A woman's car is egged while she drives on Lowell Street.